Analysis of Everything that Rises Must Converge

This short story by Flannery O'Connor is a great story containing many themes including identity and racial matters. In this story, Julian and his mother need to go to weight-reducing classes. They must ride the city bus to go there, which is a problem for his mother. While on the bus, they encounter a black woman and her young child. Julian's mother is racist and believes that whites are superior. Julian is ashamed of ...